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Curriculum Vitae Curriculum Vitae Devin O. Pendas [email protected] Department of History Boston College 140 Chestnut Hill Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3859 Work: (617) 552-6881 Cell: (508) 314-4126 Education Ph.D., 2000 University of Chicago, History M.A., 1993 University of Chicago, History Diplôme élémentaire, 1990 Institut Catholique de Paris, French B.A., 1989 Carleton College, History magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kapa Academic Employment 2019- Boston College Professor of History Affiliated Faculty, Center for Human Rights and International Justice (2006-); Affiliated Faculty, Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy (2009-); Affiliated Faculty, Jewish Studies Program (2011-). 2006-2019 Boston College Associate Professor of History Summer 2017 Fritz Bauer Institute, J.W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Guest Professor for Interdisciplinary Holocaust Research (taught a seminar on “Kriegsverbrecherprozesse in der Weltgeschichte” and a lecture course on “War and Genocide in World History”) Spring 2016 Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan Guest Professor (taught the seminar, “Law, Human Rights, and International History”) 1 2008- Harvard University Faculty Affiliate and Co-Chair, German Study Group (2008-14); co-chair, Contemporary Europe Study Group (2014-19), Minda de Guzberg Center for European Studies 2003-06 Boston College Assistant Professor of History 2000-2003 University of Chicago Collegiate Assistant Professor of Social Sciences and Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts; Member of the Committee on International Relations [from 2002]; associated faculty member, Department of History [from 2001] 1995-1999 University of Chicago Lecturer, Social Science Core 1994-1995 University of Chicago Teaching Assistant, Social Science Core 1992-1996 University of Chicago Research Assistant for Professor Michael Geyer Publications Books -- Democracy, Nazi Trials and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945-1950 (Cambridge University Press, 2020). --Beyond the Racial State: New Perspectives on Nazi Germany, co-edited with Mark Roseman and Richard Wetzel (Cambridge University Press, 2017). --Political Trials in Theory and History, co-edited with Jens Meierhenrich (Cambridge University Press, 2016). --Der Auschwitz-Prozess: Völkermord vor Gericht (Siedler Verlag, 2013). German translation of The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, with a new afterward. -- The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963-1965: Genocide, History and the Limits of the Law (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Books in progress --The Cambridge History of the Holocaust, vol. 4, Outcomes, Aftermath, Repercussions, co-edited with Laura Jockusch 2 --Law, Mass Violence, and the Making of the Modern World (under contract with Oxford University Press). Series Editor --Genocide in Transnational Perspective, Bloomsbury Press (London). Journal Articles and Essays --“War Crimes Trials between Politics and Justice,” Tulsa Law Review 49/2 (Winter 2013): 557-568. --“Auschwitz Trials: The Jewish Dimension,” with Laura Jockusch and Gabriel Finder, Yad Vashem Studies 41/2 (2013): 139-171. --“Anatomie eines Skandals: die Ermittlungen im Mordfall Dr. Hans Hannemann im Kontext der deutschen Nachkriegsjustiz,” Kritische Justiz 46/3 (2013): 245-56. --“Toward a New Politics? On the Recent Historiography of Human Rights” Contemporary European History 21/1 (2012): 95-111. --“Retroactive Law and Proactive Justice: Debating Crimes against Humanity in Germany, 1945-1950” Central European History 43 (September 2010): 428-63. --“Interrogating Torture: Human Rights, the War on Terror, and the Fate of America,” The Journal of American Studies 44 (May 2010): 429-39. -- “Seeking Justice, Finding Law: Nazi Trials in the Postwar Era, 1945-1989” in The Journal of Modern History 81 (June 2009): 347-368. -- “Explaining Nazism: Ethics, Beliefs, and Interests” in Modern Intellectual History 5 (November 2008): 573-96. --“Transitional Justice and Just Transitions: The German Case, 1945-1950” European Studies Forum 38 (Spring 2008): 57-64. -- “Eichmann in Jerusalem, Arendt in Frankfurt: The Eichmann Trial, the Auschwitz Trial and the Banality of Justice,” New German Critique 34 (Winter 2007): 77-109. -- “‘The Magical Scent of the Savage’: Colonial Violence, the Crisis of Civilization and the Origins of the Legalist Paradigm of War,” The Boston College International and Comparative Law Review 30 (Winter 2007): 29-53. -- “Truth and its Consequences: Reflections on Political, Historical and Legal ‘Truth’ in West German Holocaust Trials,” Traverse: Zeitschrift für Geschichte/Revue d’histoire 11 (2004): 25-38. 3 -- “‘I didn’t know what Auschwitz was’: The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial and the German Press, 1963-1965,” Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 12 (June 2000): 397-446. Book Chapters --“‘Final Solution,’ Holocaust, Shoah, or Genocide: From Separate to Integrated Histories” in Hilary Earl and Simone Gigliotti eds., The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Holocaust (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020): 21-44. --“Criminals, Enemies, and the Politics of Transitional Justice” in Austin Sarat et. al. eds., Criminals and Enemies (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019): 22-43. --“War Crimes Trials in Theory and Practice from the Middle Ages to the Present” in Jonathan Waterlow and Jacques Schumacher eds. War Crimes Trials and Investigations: A Multidisciplinary Introduction (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2018): 23-58. --“Introduction,” with Mark Roseman and Richard Wetzell in Pendas et. al. Beyond the Racial State (2017): 1-31. --“Racial States in Comparative Global Perspective” in Pendas et. al, Beyond the Racial State (2017): 116-145. -- “‘The Justice of My Cause is Clear, but There’s Politics to Fear’: Political Trials in Theory and History,” with Jens Meierhenrich, in Meierhenrich and Pendas, Political Trials (2016): 1-64. -- “The Eichmann Trial and the Politics of Cosmopolitan Memory” in Meierhenrich and Pendas, Political Trials (2016): 205-228. --“Against War: Pacifism as Collaboration and as Resistance,” in Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze eds., The Cambridge History of the Second World War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015): 475-501. --“Der 1. Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess, 1963-1965. Eine historische Einführung” in Raphael Gross and Werner Renz ed. Der Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess (1963-1965): Kommentierte Quellenedition, 2 vols. (Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2013): 55-85. -- “Atom Egoyan’s Ararat and the Critique of Diplomatic Reason,” in John Michalczyk and Raymond G. Helmick eds,. Through a Lens Darkly: Films of Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Atrocities (New York: Peter Lang, 2013): 38-48. -- “The Fate of Nuremberg: The Legacy and Impact of the Successor Trials in the Postwar Era” in Kim C. Priemel and Alexa Stiller eds., The Nuremberg Trials Revisited: New Analyses and Interpretations (New York: Berghahn Books, 2012): 249-75. 4 -- “Putting the Holocaust on Trial in the Two Germanys, 1945-1989,” in Jonathan Friedman ed., The Routledge History of the Holocaust (London: Routledge, 2011): 425- 35. -- “Auf dem Weg zu einem globalen Rechtssystem? Die Menschenrechte und das Scheitern des legalistischen Paradigmas des Krieges” in Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann ed., Moralpolitik. Geschichte der Menschenrechte im 20. Jahrhundert (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2010), 226-55. In English as “Toward World Law? Human Rights and the Failure of the Legalist Paradigm of War” in Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann ed., Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011): 215-36. -- “Punishment as Prevention? The Politics of Punishing Génocidaires” co-authored with Donald Bloxham in Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses eds. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Genocide (Oxford University Press, 2010): 617-37. -- “Bearing Witness and Being a Witness: Survivor Testimony in West German Holocaust Trials” in J.D. Steinert ed., Beyond Camps and Forced Labor: 60 Years On (Osnabrück: Secolo Verlag, 2008): 195-205. -- “Testimony” in Benjamin Ziemann and Miriam Dobson eds., Reading Primary Sources (London: Routledge, 2008): 226-42. -- “The Historiography of Horror: The Auschwitz Trial and the German Historical Imagination” in Jeffrey Diefendorf ed., Lessons and Legacies VI: New Currents in Holocaust Research (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2004): 209-30. -- “‘Law, not Vengeance’: Human Rights, the Rule of Law and the Claims of Memory in German Holocaust Trials” in Mark Bradley ed., Truth Claims: Representation and Human Rights (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002): 23-41. -- “‘Auschwitz, je ne savais pas ce que c’était’: Le procès d’Auschwitz à Francfort et l’opinion publique allemande” in Florent Brayard ed., Le genocide des juifs entre procès et histoire, 1943-2000 (Brussels: edition Complexe, 2001), 79-112. (Translation of an earlier version of the Yale Journal article). Minor Essays and Encyclopedia Articles --“Why We Should Still Care about Prosecuting Nazi Criminals,” on we’re history; http://werehistory.org/nazis/. -- “Germany—the Nazi Past” and “Nuremberg” in Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky eds., The Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013): vol. 2, 200-209; vol. 3, 330-35. --Virtual Forum, “The Eichmann Trial Fifty Years Later” in German History 29/2 (2011): 265-82. 5 --“‘Political Tyranny and Ideological Crime’: Rereading Anatomy of the SS State” in Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Cotemporary History 5/3 (2008): http://www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/16126041-Pendas-3-2008. Academic Awards, Honors and Fellowships Professional --Frederick
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